“The higher man is distinguished from the lower by his fearlessness and his readiness to challenge misfortune.”

“A man far oftener appears to have a decided character from persistently following his temperament than from persistently following his principles.”

“Twofold misjudgement. - The misfortune suffered by clear-minded and easily understood writers is that they are taken for shallow and thus little effort is expended on reading them: and the good fortune that attends the obscure is that the reader toils at them and ascribes to them the pleasure he has in fact gained from his own zeal.”

“The domestication (the culture) of man does not go deep--where it does go deep it at once becomes degeneration (type: the Christian). The 'savage' (or, in moral terms, the evil man) is a return to nature--and in a certain sense his recovery, his cure from 'culture'.”

“Do I advise you to love thy neighbor? I suggest rather to escape from thy neighbor and to love those who are the farthest away from you. Higher than the love for thy neighbor is the love for the man who is distant and has still to come.”

“The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.”

“The complete irresponsibility of man for his actions and his nature is the bitterest drop which he who understands must swallow.”